Reason TV’s Nanny of the Year is …

posted at 12:15 pm on December 28, 2011 by Ed Morrissey

It’s the end of the year, and so it’s awards season, and not just at Hot Air. (Have you voted in today’s OOTY polls yet?) Reason TV caps off its series of 2011 Nannies of the Month by selecting one as the Nanny of the Year, presented by Ted Balaker and attended by a virtual cast of thousands. This year, they select a lawmaker that went too far in attempting to criminalize sexual contact between teachers and students, pushing a law that would have made it a felony for instructors at any level to have an intimate relationship with an adult student:

These United States have produced many worthy nominees in 2011. Who could forget the city planner who threatened a woman with 93 days behind bars for growing vegetables or the state senator who did his best to outlaw crossing the street while listening to an iPod (shortly before pleading guilty to federal corruption charges).

But this year the golden Nanny goes to the Wolverine state pol who’s bent on making most any kind of teacher-student sex–not just a fireable offense, but a felony, even if the student is older than age 18 or even if teacher and student are middle-aged. (And, in an apparent attempt to secure nanny gold, our winner is also fighting to force school kids to recite the pledge in front of genuine made-in-America flags.)

As I wrote a few weeks ago (this was the latest Nanny of the Month), the law would have flown in the face of Lawrence v Texas, and, er, common sense. I’m not sure I’d pick this as their NOTY, though; there were some pretty good candidates this year. Let’s set up our own poll to see which nanny-stater gets the Hot Air nod.

I picked vegetable lady, though any of the bans on food are right up there. While the Michigan law goes too far, it is not nanny of the year worthy. However, libertarians have sex and pot on the brain 23 out of 24 hours per day, so their selection is not surprising.

Just another way to hook skulls full of mush to be 100% dependent on the govt for their daily bread. With this ban, it forces not just the poor kids, but every kid that walks in the door to look up to Papa Sam (no longer Uncle, since he’s making the move for full custody)

All very good – or should I say very bad? seems to me I’ve seen articles about attempts to ban smoking in peoples’ own houses somewhere – that should be a nominee (and I’m not a smoker). But I have to go with the ban on kids bringing homemade sack lunches to school.

Nope. As absurd as the lemonade Nazis are, at least those kids are making lemonade and selling it to strangers. No, the most astonishing intrusion in normal life has to be the principal who banned grade school students from bringing a lunch that their Mom or Dad made them at home.

That is communist/statist bullsh!t on a level I never thought I would see in America. And to think … it comes from a Chicago teacher union maggot. What a surprise.

In Illinois, everyone knows that Chicago is just one cog in the entire wheel that makes up the corruption in this state. The real center of corruption is in the state capital of Springfield, where the real boss of All Things Politically Corrupt, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, rules with a proverbial iron fist.

Based on Clinton’s activities and logic I tried to convince my wife it was ok for me to get the same “services” but she didn’t go for it. My wife didn’t care what the definition of is is. Hillary may have fallen for it, but possessive, jealous, conservative redheads don’t….

How about a compromise, and just institute a ban on free range Political Science graduates, as they come out of college loaded up with debts and with no real-life talents, so they’re left with nothing to do except trying to implement laws such as the above.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We didn’t get the Olympics but we might get this award. Well, not the real Reason award but the HA version of the Reason award. Yay! They don’t call us the Second City for nothin’…

What about the TSA? They’re not just nannies, they’ve take control of the entire transportation industry and they’re about to grab even more power. There’s also the SOPA that may pass, giving government complete control over the internet.

But since those weren’t up there, I voted for the ban on sack lunches.

Had to go with Reason’s choice, seeing as I helped him get elected to the state house–did some letter writing for him in his first state senate bid, too. He made sense until he gained that senate seat. I’m glad I now live in a more reasonably represented district, but Doctor Kahn has disappointed a good number of us; he also voted for the smoking ban (yes, he’s a cardiologist, but as a conservative he should recognize concepts such as liberty and private property rights). My rep put forth many amendments to ameliorate the law, but all were shot down.
And, Cyhort, just so you know, Michael Moore doesn’t represent the way most of us up here think.

How dare a school district determine what a parent can feed her children! This isn’t just a grave violation of parental rights, it’s a statement that the government thinks it owns your children. Why haven’t they been sued?

Initially I couldn’t decide between the “free range” kids and the school lunches, but as the latter happened in America, I decided it was much worse for that reason. Also, I am a parent of four school age kids who wouldn’t touch the school cafeteria food with a 10-foot pole.

I’ve had the misfortune of dealing with Kevin Rulkowski, the city planner who made Oak Park, Michigan a laughingstock by trying to prosecute, with the threat of jail time, a woman for growing vegetables in her yard.

He told me that I had “insulted” him when I called him a bureaucrat. When I asked him how that was an insult he said, “Well, you meant it as an insult”.

So I told him, “No, if I wanted to insult you I’d call you the tax-feeding rent-seeking government worker parasite that you are.”

All of the nominees are worthy of … well, something, but this one is special. You must eat as the State demands, the food provided by your parents is invalid. A short few steps from there to the situation in Gattaca.